Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Ba·bes–Ernst granule Pronunciation:
'bäb-"esh-'&rn(t)st- Function:
noun : a metachromatic granule in protoplasm called also
Babes-Ernst body Babès, Victor (1854–1926), Romanian bacteriologist. In 1888 Babès made two important discoveries. With the German pathologist PaulErnst he discovered and described the metachromatic granules seen in the protoplasm of bacteria. These granules stain deeply with aniline dyes and are now known as Babes-Ernst granules or bodies. Healso discovered a group of small protozoan parasites that invade the blood of various animals and are now placed in the genus
Babesia, named after him.
Ernst /'ernst/,
Paul (1859–1937), German pathologist. Director of the pathological institute at Heidelberg, Ernst specialized in the pathology of cells and the nervous system. In 1889 in an articlehe again described the Babes-Ernst granules.
